Somalia: 20 Shabaab Militants Killed in Airstrike On S. Somalia

Around 20 Al-Shabaab militants were killed on Monday in an airstrike carried out near the southern Somali town of Merca, a local official has said.

"We received reports that a foreign warplane had bombed an Al-Shabaab camp near Merca, leaving 20 militants dead and destroying cars and boats used by the group," Abdukadir Mohamed Sidi, governor of the Lower Shabelle region, told The Anadolu Agency.

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